Summary: "DON’T BE LIKE THE WORLDLY". Who let trials destroy them. "BE MORE THAN A CONQUER"!!!

How was week? Good, Bad, Ugly, or Don’t want to talk about it? If not bad, have you ever had a bad week? Felt all alone, helpless, and nobody cares?

GUESS WHAT? God cares and so do I.

Today share words of hope and encouragement.

READ (Rom. 8:28-37)

According to vv. Who are you?

1) v.30, Predestined, called, justified, and glorified.

2) v.33,God’s elect.

3) But, v.37 “More Than Conquers”

Def. Conquer

1. To overcome by force or fighting; subdue, especially in war; crush the resistance of; vanquish. 2. To overcome by mental or moral power; subdue by an inward struggle; surmount or remove by effort. 3. To gain in war or by fighting; win or secure by a struggle in which obstruction or opposition is overcome.

“BUT WE ARE MORE THAN CONQUERS”

We can over come the enemy without any force. I don’t have to do any of these things mentioned in this definition.

If God’s word had just told us we were conquerors it would have been enough - but it tells us we are more than conquerors through Him. So, rather than saying, “I’m defeated,” rise up and say, “I’m more than a conqueror!”

It may not seem to you that you are a conqueror - but your confession of it, because of what you see in God’s Word, will create the reality of it in your life.

Tell your neighbor - “I’m More Than A Conqueror” Every thing is going to be alright, God said so.

Lets start with that thought (Read v.28)

All things

We are not exempt from afflictions, trials, persecutions, and calamities in life. BUT, one thing we can be certain of.

God causes all things to work together (For Good).

Trials eventually contribute to our good. (Double for your trouble) Trials lead us to look to God for support. God then gives us a calm temper, a patient tender and kind personality.

Another thing that is for certain. Every Saint is able to say, it was good for them to be afflicted.